Cross

44 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cross, from 181 m² to 164,385 m² (16.44 ha, 40.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cross in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 31 Oct 2023Conditional

  to construct a three bay single slatted cattle shed (floor area 104sqm)

  Permission · Galway County Council, 23441

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  Construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 246 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260213

• 11 Mar 2022Conditional

  Construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment plant and percolation area, along with all ancillary works. Gross floor space of proposed works 259 sqm.

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 2260214

• 25 Oct 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a dwellinghouse, domestic garage, sewerage treatment facilities, site entrance and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 271.72 sqm (House - 229.75 sqm, Garage - 41.97 sqm)

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 191670

• 1 Apr 2019Conditional

  for the construction of a new dwelling house, domestic garage, treatment plant, percolation area and all associated site works. Gross floor space of proposed works: 172 sqm

  Permission, 1 home · Galway County Council, 19459

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Cross.

Recorded monuments

• GA098-084 Enclosure
  Description

  On W-facing slope of a hill in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular enclosure (ENE-WSW 35.3m, NNW-SSE 34m) delimited from N through E to SSE by the td. boundary; from SSE to S a faint rise may represent a former bank. Elsewhere a slight scarp forms the enclosing element. A stone wall is evident inside the bank at SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

• GA098-085 Prehistoric site - lithic scatter
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Cross.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Cross.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Cross with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Galway.

Name

Cross · An Chrois

Area

1,182,584 m² (118.26 ha, 292.22 acres)

Civil parish

Grange, and its townlands

Barony

Kilconnell

Electoral division

Grange, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Grange electoral division: 805 people in 256 households; 93% of households own their home; 36% of homes were built since 2001; 13% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballinphuill, Ben Beg, Brackloonbeg, Caraun More, Carra, Cloonyconaun, Rahally

Placenames

Cross on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.